Disco Bloodbath has since gone out of print[citation needed] and often goes for several hundred dollars in auctions.[citation needed] It was only printed 3 times, in 1999, twice in paperback with different coloured jackets, and once in hardcover. It was re-printed in 2003 under the title Party Monster - The Fabulous but True Tale of Murder in Clubland (ISBN 0-684-85764-2); paperbacks are widely available.

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Michael Alig was a member of the notorious Club Kids, a group of young clubgoers led by Alig in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In 1996 Alig was convicted of the murder of Andre "Angel" Melendez in a confrontation over a drug debt.[1][2]

James St. James (born James Clark)[5] was a Club Kid of the Manhattan club scene in the late 1980s/early 1990s and the author of the book. He was notorious for a lifestyle of excess that included heavy drug use, partying, and bizarre costumes. James St. James continues to work with World of Wonder, the production company that produced both Party Monster: The Shockumentary (1998) and Party Monster (2003), which were based on the book.

Andre Melendez, better known as Angel Melendez, was a Club Kid and drug dealer who lived and worked in New York City.[1] Melendez and his family arrived in New York from Colombia when Melendez was eight years old. Melendez became a drug dealer during the early 1990s after he met Peter Gatien, owner of The Limelight in New York. Melendez became a regular dealer in Gatien's clubs. He was frequently seen at Manhattan clubs wearing his trademark feathered wings.

^ abJohn Sullivan (September 11, 1997). "2 Men Plead Guilty in Killing of Club Denizen". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-03-23. Mr. Alig, who pleaded guilty in State Supreme Court in Manhattan to one count of first degree manslaughter, admitted that he and a friend smothered Andre Melendez, known as Angel, chopped up his body and threw it into the Hudson River.